Isaiah 31:3

The English Standar Version

The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:8

With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Psalm 118:8

It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.

Psalm 33:17

The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.

Psalm 9:20

Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

Isaiah 20:4

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.

Isaiah 20:6

And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, 'Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?' "

Isaiah 30:16

and you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.

Isaiah 30:5

everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace."

Isaiah 30:7

Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still."

Isaiah 36:6

Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 36:9

How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly.[6] For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 15:6

You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you -- I am weary of relenting.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength,[1] whose heart turns away from the LORD.

Ezekiel 28:2

"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god --

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, 'I am a god,' in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you?

Amos 2:15

he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides.[3] And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."